2015 Today I Learned Quotes
January 2015
- I will be grateful for this day.
- Righteousness is more powerful than wickedness.
- Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.
- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- Don’t forget to be awesome!
- I am in charge of how I feel and today I am choosing happiness.
- Some of life’s best lessons are learned at the worst times.
- Leaders should be interested in leadership because it’s good for those around them and not themselves.
- Our conduct will never change His fundamental character.
- When a leader fails to be vulnerable they destroy trust with the people they lead.
- You may not always end up where you thought you were going, but you will always end up where you are meant to be.
- Sometimes we need to pray to God to free us to go and begin our new journey so that passion may be born out of the request and the results.
- You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- The power of a group is the function of the purity of its motives.
- A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
- Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- We don’t lose friends during troubles; we just learn who our real ones are.
- The same level of thinking that created the problem won’t solve the problem.
- Actions do speak louder than words and promises mean nothing without proof.
- You have to learn the rules of the game and then you have to play better than anyone else.
- When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
July 2015
- Learn to say “no” without explaining yourself.
- From Dr. Emily Loveland that when we put food into our mouth, we are making a choice to slowly poison our body or to nourish and heal it.
- Only dead fish go with the flow.
- The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow.
- From Jordan Holwell that you are never too old to change, to learn or to remake yourself.
- Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.
- Live in such a way that if someone spoke badly of you no one would believe it.
- Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you discover that He is the rock at the bottom.
- From Raymond Rasmussen that whether the glass is half full or half empty, it can always be refilled.
- Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
- Success is a journey, not a destination; if you believe you are a success, you are.
- From Ursula Wachowiak that at any given moment, you have the power to say, “This is not how the story is going to end.”
- One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.
- It might take a year, it might take a day, but what’s meant to be will always find its way.
- From Curt Salomon. Good, better, best… Never let it rest, till the good is better and the better is best.
- Be a Flamingo in a flock of Pigeons.
- Success cannot be obtained by merely doing what is required, but by doing what you need to do, against all odds, at a level of excellence above all others.
- From Peter A. Cohen that there is no one giant step that does it; it’s a lot of little steps.
- Success does not come to you, you go to it; if you believe you are a success, you are.
- Cry as hard as you want, but make sure that when you stop crying, you never cry for the same reason again.
- From Audrey Hepburn that nothing is IMPOSSIBLE, the word itself says, “I’m Possible.”
- There is no angry way to say Bubbles.
- If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it.
February 2015
- The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
- Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest. ‘
- If “Plan A” didn’t work. The alphabet has 25 more letters.
- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
- Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless and strong when facing them.
- Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.
- What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Always trust you first gut instincts. If you genuinely feel in your Heart and soul that something is wrong, it usually is.
- Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever.
- Difficult times can define you, diminish you or develop you.
- Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
- I can’t change the director of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- Always trust you first gut instincts. If you genuinely feel in your Heart and soul that something is wrong, it usually is.
- Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever.
- Difficult times can define you, diminish you or develop you.
- Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
- I can’t change the director of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- Don’t let school get in the way of your education.
- Life isn’t about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.
- Energy flows where energy goes.
- Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.
- Spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better.
August 2015
- Success is a state of mind and a belief in excellence; if you believe you are a success, you are.
- A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
- From Eleanor Roosevelt that no one can make you inferior without your consent.
- From Ursula Wachowiak that one woman can make a difference, but together we can Rock the World.
- Life is like a camera. You focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negative and if things don’t work out take another shot.
- From Suzanne Evans that money should not be for getting things, it should be for changing things.
- Be a voice, not an echo.
- Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.
- From Ursula Wachowiak that a successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.
- Change is inevitable but growth is optional.
- From Maya Angelou. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.
- If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.
- From Dale E. Turner. Because everything we say and do is a shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
- It is when you have a crack in your heart that the light will come in.
- Success is not defined by having the most opportunities, talents or the best luck but by developing the opportunities with your god given talents regardless of your fortune.
- Let Go and Let God!
- Keep Calm and Smile!
March 2015
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
- Peace doesn’t mean you won’t have problems; peace means your problems won’t have you.
- Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- I will not say I failed 1000 times; I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich and a tragedy for the poor.
- People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.
- Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
- Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
- Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.
- Let go of people who dull your shine, poison your spirit, and bring you drama.
- If we aren’t happy with who we are, how can we help others find happiness.
- Stop letting people who do so little for you, control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.
- Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.
- Don’t wait till you reach your goal to enjoy your body.
- I will walk by faith even when I cannot see.
- The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
- It’s really Okay for there to be times when you stop putting everyone else first and just do what’s best for you.
- Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
- Do not get upset with people or situations both are powerless without your reaction.
- The key to happiness is letting each situation be what it is instead of what you think it should be.
September 2015
- Worrying doesn’t take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.
- We never lose friends. We simply learn who the real ones are.
- No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life goes on and will be better tomorrow.
- Be someone else’s sunshine. Be the reason someone smiles today.
- Eventually people will realize that mistakes are meant for learning not repeating.
- Keep Going. Everything you need will come to you at a perfect time.
- We don’t lose friends. We just learn who our real ones are.
- Follow Your Gut.
- Something about people. If they do it once, they’ll do it again.
- The PAST is where you learned the lesson. The FUTURE is where you apply the lesson. Don’t GIVE UP in the middle.
- Before you assume; learn the facts. Before you judge; understand why. Before you hurt someone; feel. Before you speak; think.
- A truly Great Mentor is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.
- True humility is staying teachable, regardless of how much you already know.
- I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.
- If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
- From Bob Proctor that a mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
- We sometimes may think we know the answers, but we really don’t even see the problem.
- My world may not be falling apart, it might just be falling into place.
- It’s not about how hard you get hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
April 2015
- The secret of being HAPPY is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.
- There are no regrets in life, just lessons learned.
- Worrying doesn’t take away tomorrow’s troubles it takes away today’s peace.
- It is a great day to learn something new.
- You learn something every day IF you pay attention.
- Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.
- I can and I will.
- Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone. Don’t stress about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful.
- Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not the thunder.
- Our choices are just a reflection of our essence and the outcome of our intention.
- Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
- When it rains look for rainbows, when it’s dark look for stars.
- Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.
- Difficult Roads Often Lead To Beautiful Destinations.
- Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind.
- Grace is the power of God working in you and through you to do those things you cannot do.
- It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.
- Leave a little sparkle wherever you go.
- Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid to not try.
- Our scars only show us where we’ve been. They don’t dictate where we will go.
- Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.
- Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
- The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything.
- Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you will look back and realize they were the big things.
October 2015
- True sales is a transformation of inspiration.
- From Suzanne Evans that if you live your life looking for coupons, then you live a coupon life.
- If we are following Jesus and it does not lead to the poor, then we’re not really following Jesus .
- Our job as a parent is not to shield our kids from struggles and pain but to prepare them to navigate through life with grace and conviction.
- Let go of what we expected and embrace what we have.
- To have no regrets, just lessons learned.
- The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.
- Grief never ends…But it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay.
- A wise man can learn more from a foolish question; and a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- From Dr. Seuss that you have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
- Always act like you are wearing an invisible crown.
- Having positive thoughts increase your brains ability to make better decisions.
- Intelligent people have the ability to enhance the intelligence of those who are close to them.
- Bad memories will play the most often, but just because the memory comes up doesn’t mean you have to watch it. Change the channel.
- To find my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
- You don’t know, until you know.
- Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
- It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
- To give not because I have MUCH, but because I know how it feels to have NOTHING.
- Truly GREAT FRIENDS are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.
- Life is beautiful.
May 2015
- Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.
- Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie.
- In the end, we only regret the chances we did not take.
- Stars can’t shine without darkness.
- We are created to be human beings, not human doings. It’s time to stop doing and start being.
- We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
- You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
- You were born to be real, not to be perfect.
- When you worry about tomorrow, you waste today.
- You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Be who you are not who the world wants you to be.
- If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal.
- You were born to be real, not to be perfect.
- Do what is right, not what is easy.
- From Kim Brondyke that you don’t know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
- Broken crayons still color.
- God makes people. People make issues.
- IF you can melt my mind… you can have my body… if you can melt my heart… you can have my soul…
- If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.
- Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to is courageous. Walking away with your head held high is dignity.
November 2015
- Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
- Believe in yourself a little more each day.
- Be open to learning new lessons today even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
- Imagination and creativity is more important than knowledge.
- Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- Everybody’s got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.
- Without a solid foundation, you’ll have trouble creating anything of value.
- Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.
- Don’t tell me the sky is the limits when there are footprints on the moon.
- Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
- Pets are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
- Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
- Nothing is impossible; the word itself says “I’m Possible”; today is the day to make it happen!
- From Kathleen Gage that it is better to be useful than wonderful.
- From Debra Magoon that Pain is temporary, quitting is forever.
- I love the person I am today and without the lessons I learned from my past, my journey, I would not be me.
- Life is a journey, Live it!
- Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Say no to the status quo.
- Everyone has the potential to be more inventive and change their future at any age.
June 2015
- You are capable of more than you know.
- Don’t look back you’re not going that way.
- Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
- If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough!
- It always seems impossible until it’s done.
- Why wish upon a star. When you can pray to the one who created it.
- It might take a Year, it might take a Day, but what’s meant to be will always find its Way.
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
- Live in grace. Walk in love.
- Don’t let someone who has done nothing tell you how to do anything.
- Be your own kind of beautiful.
- Don’t stress the “could haves” because if it “should have”, it WOULD HAVE.
- From Dori Mages that success is not measured by the number of friends you have, but by the number of friends who have your back.
- The world is a jungle; you either fight or run forever.
- Love everyone always.
- From Debra Sunderland that just as the brain has the ability to take away a life, it also has the power to give back beyond what is expected.
- Don’t think too much. You’ll create a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place.
- From Valerie Janke that the only time we truly fail is if we fail to try.
- To be authentic and say what I feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
- Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you say is nothing at all.
- Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
- From Dori Mages that when we become anxious, we need to utilize that tension to propel us forward and push us harder toward success.
December 2015
- From Wayne Dyer that when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
- What you think, you become.
- God is never the author of evil.
- The seed is the orchard in disguise.
- God’s presence is never more real than in the middle of a storm.
- Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
- From Johnna Parr that ACTION separates the WINNERS from the WHINERS!
- God will always limit the evil that comes our way so we can endure.
- Our only chance to thrive is to have strong roots.
- God will eventually weave our pain and suffering and weave it into a fabric of blessings and purpose.
- Identity drives Motivation; Motivation drives Action; Actions drives Results.
- Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
- The Spirit of God transcends human ability and transforms human inability.
- To fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
- From Suzanne Evans that simpler is richer.
- Anyone can run downhill but only a few will run up hill and that is where the prize is.
- From George Eliot that it’s never too late to be what you might have been.
- Merry Christmas!!
- From Debra Magoon that it’s easier to give birth than raise the dead!
- When you’re up your friends know who you are. When you’re down, you know who your friends are.